What I found interesting in the story was that they were arrested at the airport as they were leaving the country, but only after they had uploaded their photos to their Instagram site. Which tells me people were monitoring their Internet traffic. THAT is a lot more telling about lack of freedoms in a controlled country than the fact that they took the picture. Nobody saw them do that, it was uploading it that got the attention of authorities.
Americans tend to think they are invincible, and that other countries operate the same way the USA does. Not at all true. When my Navy ship visited Port au Prince, Haiti, in the Mid-70s, we had a forced-on-us tour guide who fought a fistfight with other tour guides at the boat dock for the privilege of showing four American sailors around the island. Over the next few days, as we tried engaging him in conversation, he was very reserved, and wouldn't talk about how it was to live in Haiti, about their government, and especially about their President. His eyes got wide when we tried to get him to tell us what he was afraid of, and he kept looking around him. His sense of paranoia was very real. He finally, firmly, declined to talk, and got very quiet. All he would say was that it wasn't safe to speak like that. Later, in a very private, confiding moment, he told us that two of his uncles had spoken their anti-government opinions in public. They went missing shortly afterwards, and hadn't been seen since. He was quietly terrified for his own safety. Poor man. We each gave him a generous amount of money for what he did, (it might have totaled $100 for two or three days of chaperoned tour guide work.) He started to cry, and tried to give us back some of the money. We insisted he had earned it, and he should keep it. Through his tears, with a shaky smile, he said that was more money than he'd earned in a year. (Roland Jean, if you're still alive, I hope you are happy. You were a proud man, living in a terrible situation. I hope you gained solace and peace.)
Dave